VANCOUVER—Amie Peacock describes her mother as “a social butterfly,” but when she came to visit her in Vancouver from the Philippines, she discovered a lack of friends and a language barrier had left her mother miserable and lonely.
“I couldn’t imagine there are more people like her in our city and, sure enough, when I started looking at the cause and effects of social isolation, I realized that the problem is so much greater than what I had imagined,” Peacock said.
